Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.